Replace a batch file with a autoit .exe

[sutefan]

Hello,

I am new to autoit and downloaded on the recommendation from several sources including novell.com. As a network administrator one of my duties to ensure anti-virus is kept up to date, generally this taken care by central administration without any issues. This however does not help with remote users. Sophos the av provider recommendation was to create a batch file as follows, which uses wget to download a file before the update to processed. Can I achive the same result with AutoIt?

The batch file we are currently using is as follows:

@echo off

C:

CD C:\SOPHIDE

DEL *.IDE

DEL IDES.EXE

WGET http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe

IDES.EXE

COPY /Y *.IDE C:\Progra~1\Sophos~1\

NET STOP SWEEPSRV.SYS

NET START SWEEPSRV.SYS

wget is a standalone program that resides in the same directory as the batch file and used to download the ides.exe file from Sophos' website.

So far I've only done the helloworld and a small utility to display Computer Name and IP in a message box so my AutoIt knowledge is limited :">

Any help or suggestions appreciated!

Sutefan

Edited March 8, 2005 by sutefan

[SlimShady]

I just converted it for you.

More info about the functions is available in the help file.

FileDelete('C:\SOPHIDE\*.IDE')
FileDelete('C:\SOPHIDE\IDES.EXE')
InetGet('http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe', 'C:\SOPHIDE\IDES.EXE', 1)
RunWait('C:\SOPHIDE\IDES.EXE')
FileCopy('C:\SOPHIDE\*.IDE', 'C:\Progra~1\Sophos~1\', 1)
RunWait('NET STOP SWEEPSRV.SYS', '', @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('NET START SWEEPSRV.SYS', '', @SW_HIDE)

[sutefan]

Excellent Much appreciated

Have some more questions but I want to lookup those functions so that I understand what's happening.

Thanks Again

Sutefan

[CyberSlug]

Based on SlimShady's post

Line-by-line translation with closest equivalents. Untested, so be careful with FileDelete!

#NoTrayIcon
; the C: line is not needed
FileChangeDir("C:\SOPHIDE")
FileDelete("*.IDE")
FileDelete("IDES.EXE')
RunWait("WGET http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe","",@SW_HIDE)
RunWait('C:\SOPHIDE\IDES.EXE')
FileCopy('C:\SOPHIDE\*.IDE', 'C:\Progra~1\Sophos~1\', 1)
RunWait('NET STOP SWEEPSRV.SYS', '', @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('NET START SWEEPSRV.SYS', '', @SW_HIDE)

Edited March 8, 2005 by CyberSlug

[sutefan]

My first question

Can Environmental Variables be used in AutoIt? So in this case for the above script I would want to replace all instances of C:\SOPHIDE with %TEMP% and %SystemDrive%.

I've tried this but the Auto SyntaxCheck in SciTE says there are 0 error but when I do a check run it comes up with the following error:

(5) : ==> Unable to execute the external program.:

RunWait('%TEMP%\IDES.EXE')

The system cannot find the file specified.

I assume this is because there is no ides.exe file in %TEMP%. So I moved the FileDelete lines down to the bottom of the script so the files are deleted after the update is complete.

This also fails with the same error as above.

#NoTrayIcon
InetGet('http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe', '%TEMP%\IDES.EXE', 1)
RunWait('%TEMP%\IDES.EXE')
FileCopy('%TEMP%\*.IDE', '%SystemDrive%\Sophos~1\', 1)
RunWait('NET STOP SWEEPSRV.SYS', '', @SW_HIDE)
RunWait('NET START SWEEPSRV.SYS', '', @SW_HIDE)
FileDelete('%TEMP%\*.IDE')
FileDelete('%TEMP%\IDES.EXE')

Sutefan

Edited March 9, 2005 by sutefan

[webmedic]

I'm roughly guesing here but you will most likely have to set those up as variables.

if FileExists("c:\windows\temp") then $temp = "c:\windows\temp"
   RunWait($temp & '\IDES.EXE')

I'm really guessing here and have not tested the code at all.

[Andre]

Hi,

Sophos also provides RUS Remote Update Service.......

for use with remote users. Works perfectly....

Andre